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Description: | An incomplete post-Medieval lead cloth seal from the city of Augsburg, Germany (c. 1500-c. 1625).A two part seal:Disc 1: A pine cone, the heraldic badge of the city of Augsburg. A trefoil is situated at each side of the pine cone.Disc 2: Largely missing. The stub of the rivet has an ornate initial letter A representing the place name.The joining strip is incomplete.The seal is grey and has traces of a buff patina.Length: 23.4mm; width: 19.1mm; thickness: 3.4mm. Weight: 5.34g.Seals from the fustians (mixed linen-warp and cotton weft fabrics) of Augsburg, known to contemporaries in this country as "Ousbrow or Augusta fustians", are among the most common and widespread of all recorded imports in England.For analogies see Egan, G. 1994. Lead Cloth Seals and related Items in the British Museum. 106, fig. 41, 308-310. London: British Museum. See also Egan, G. in Saunders, P (ed). 2001. Salisbury & South Wiltshire Museum Medieval Catalogue, Part 3, 70, fig. 26, 150. Salisbury: Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum.Lead seals were put on commercially produced cloths as part of a complicated system of industrial regulation, known in England as alnage, under which quality control and the levying of tax of a few pence per newly manufactured cloth was administered until 1724 (Egan, G. 1994).Egan, G. 2001. Cloth Seals in Salisbury Museum Medieval Catalogue, vol. 3.Egan, G. 1994. Lead cloth seals and related items in the British Museum. Occasional Paper 93. The British Museum Press: London.
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